A lot of people take movies seriously, yet we have porn.
A lot of people take books seriouly, yet we have smut (or romance) novels.
A lot of people take video games seriously, yet we have DoA.
If anything, videogames have the tamest seedier side of any entertainment medium.
That said, I do enjoy playing Dead or Alive and enjoy looking at the ladies, especially Lei Fang. Although my wife and I prefer Soul Calibur for the better gameplay and better campy material. She likes to ogle Nightmare and play Voldo, I like to ogle Sophitia and play Mitsurugi.
Right now we are playing Dreamfall. I enjoy the attractive main character, while she really digs Reza's (the character's ex boyfriend) voice.
Dude, it's just a name. Is it really all that big of a deal? Plus I really like it. Although I will probably refer to it as the wiiBox, or WiiCube, just 'cause that sounds so cool.
I think in an age where gaming systems are essentially referred to by their acronyms (DS, PSP, PS2, GC) Wii isn't that strange of a moniker.
Eh? The resolution stays the same from the GBA to the TV in either case. All the GB player does is blow up the same pixels until they are big enough to fit on a tv. TV's have much, much, much lower resolution than many realize.
I don't think anyone is going to confuse a data transmission standard and a game system. Yes, I have worked in retail. Yes, it was during the Christmas season.
Right, they can't port the same game to the revolution without it being inferior to the other games on the revolution that fully use the controller's capabilities.
Which would you want to play? The Madden where you get to use the new controller in all sort of new and nifty ways or the same Madden that you've been playing for the past five years?
I, for one, welcome our Revolution embracing game companies and would like to remind them that as a trusted/. commenter I could be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding camps.
I think you should realize that any slashdot article about any series or movie that you haven't seen should be regarded as completely chock-full of spoilers.
I didn't complain because we didn't have a narrative point of view from a primary character of Eps 4-6. I complained because the dialog was an offense to all that is good and decent, the plot was paper thin, the political maneuvering juvenile, and the special effects so crappy (except for the space battle at the start of Ep3). To my eye, if you compare Star Wars EPS 1-3's special effects against Firefly's or Battlestar Galactica's side by side there's absolutely no contest. The tv shows blow Star Wars away because they are forced to use special effects when necessary (or just *really* cool), not for every scene.
Without serious industry support, action, and promotion HD-DVD and Blu-ray will be to DVD as Laserdisc was to VHS. Technically superior, but too expensive and introduced to soon for most people to care.
Remember that DVDs replaced VHS after the VHS format had been around for over twenty years. That's enough time for a new generation of movie collectors to come along.
[All information here shared by my wife with her English masters degree. Any and all misinformation introduced by my transcription of her description of the theory.]
Actually Lara Croft doesn't really fit with the final girl theory. In Carol's definition you can't start with the *final* girl. She goes through a metamorphosis and becomes more masculine as she survives more of the horror.
Interesting points about the final girl theory:
The theory is flawed (all failings acknowledged by Carol Clover, she doesn't assert that this theory is anything grand or definite) in that it assumes that only adolescent males enjoy horror movies. The theory is completely broken if you agree that any women enjoy horror movies.
The theory itself says that the adolescent boys can identify with the final girl without themselves feeling threatened by the killer (who is hunting women), but who demonstrates the traits of a stereotypical adolescent male masculine fantasy (surviving against all odds, strong, capable, etc.). The theory is that this is a way for young men to indirectly experience homo-erotic fantasies. The women are characteristically running from phallic, penetrating objects such as knives and other stabbing weapons. Yet the final girl is also an erotic object herself. She usually has an asexual name (like Sam) and carries a phallic object like a torch, stick, etc.
Yes, the world of literary theory is stranger than you know. o_O
Of course, nothing beats Tactics. I think they were channelling George R. R. Martin on that one;)
Say what? I never played Tactics but am almost unhealthily obsessed with the Song of Ice and Fire. If you're serious about the great Tactics plot then I predict an addition to my DS (advance) library very soon.
Spider and Web absolutely rules for the utterly awesome solution to escape from the interrogation room. Brilliant. I would repeat it here but it's just so deliciously good that I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone.
don't know the ins and outs of virtualization, but it seems to me that if I'm running Windows apps side-by-side with native Mac apps, I expose myself to the same spyware, viruses, and other annoyances inherent to Windows. I'd MUCH rather have Windows restricted to its own little disk partition, which I could nuke any time I need to.
You should understand that its easier to nuke a virtual OS than it is to nuke an OS on its own partition. A virtualized OS also is protected from accessing the guts of the computer by the controlling operating system. If you run Windows directly from its own partition, you are indeed susceptible to all the viruses and network attacks that you are afraid of. But if you run Windows from within a virtual computer under Mac OS, the virtualization program can limit what Windows can access (i.e. no or extremely limited networking traffic, no hard disk writes, whatever).
Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.
Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings -- the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)
If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while President, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
Whether Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" is justified is a subject of debate. Any statement about the "creation" or "beginning" of the Internet is difficult to evaluate, because the Internet is not a homogenous entity (it's a collection of computers, networks, protocols, standards, and application programs), nor did it all spring into being at once (the components that comprise the Internet were developed in various places at different times and are continuously being modified, improved, and expanded). Despite a spirited defense of Gore's claim by Vint Cerf (often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in which he stated "that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it," many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977.
It is true, though, that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (although he did not, as is often claimed by others, coin the phrase himself) when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet, and he sponsored the 1988 National High-Perf
Corporate (and large University) accounts license the OS for ghost imaging. They don't rely on OEM discs from the distributer. In fact, in many cases the computers are bought sans OS so the money isn't spent twice.
Art does not need to express an idea. Art is what we see as art. Your definition is pretentious (albeit seemingly good intentioned) nonesense because you imply that being an "artist" is not something that anyone can achieve.
I think you don't realize that creating something *is* expressing an idea. Someone had an idea for a bolt, and they made it. Just because it's practical and useful and there are billions of them doesn't mean that it isn't an idea that has been made manifest. Art may be beautiful, but it doesn't have to be. Art may be functionless, but it doesn't have to be. Art may be a unique piece, but it doesn't have to be.
If I hold a bolt, is it art? If I photograph it, is it art? If I paint it, is it art? At what medium do you agree that the bolt will be art? Any at all?
Another idea that you are forgetting is the Intentional Fallacy which says that the author of a work is not the sole voice on how to interpret that work. If you paint a picture that you say expresses joy and rapture, you cannot say that I am wrong if I come along and say that it actually expresses repressed anger. Moby Dick really can just be a book about a guy huntin' a whale, that is a valid interpretation and it doesn't mean that Moby Dick isn't art.
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Ok. Insert American in front of all of my examples.
A lot of people take movies seriously, yet we have porn.
:-)
A lot of people take books seriouly, yet we have smut (or romance) novels.
A lot of people take video games seriously, yet we have DoA.
If anything, videogames have the tamest seedier side of any entertainment medium.
That said, I do enjoy playing Dead or Alive and enjoy looking at the ladies, especially Lei Fang. Although my wife and I prefer Soul Calibur for the better gameplay and better campy material. She likes to ogle Nightmare and play Voldo, I like to ogle Sophitia and play Mitsurugi.
Right now we are playing Dreamfall. I enjoy the attractive main character, while she really digs Reza's (the character's ex boyfriend) voice.
See how the medium can appeal to all?
Dude, it's just a name. Is it really all that big of a deal? Plus I really like it. Although I will probably refer to it as the wiiBox, or WiiCube, just 'cause that sounds so cool.
I think in an age where gaming systems are essentially referred to by their acronyms (DS, PSP, PS2, GC) Wii isn't that strange of a moniker.
Eh? The resolution stays the same from the GBA to the TV in either case. All the GB player does is blow up the same pixels until they are big enough to fit on a tv. TV's have much, much, much lower resolution than many realize.
I don't think anyone is going to confuse a data transmission standard and a game system. Yes, I have worked in retail. Yes, it was during the Christmas season.
Enjoy the end of the season. It's a doozy!
Right, they can't port the same game to the revolution without it being inferior to the other games on the revolution that fully use the controller's capabilities.
/. commenter I could be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground coding camps.
Which would you want to play? The Madden where you get to use the new controller in all sort of new and nifty ways or the same Madden that you've been playing for the past five years?
I, for one, welcome our Revolution embracing game companies and would like to remind them that as a trusted
"You are violent!"
"Why would you say that?" | "What makes you think that?" | etc
[answer that allows further discussion]
I think you should realize that any slashdot article about any series or movie that you haven't seen should be regarded as completely chock-full of spoilers.
Spoilers like this one: 1 year later.
I didn't complain because we didn't have a narrative point of view from a primary character of Eps 4-6. I complained because the dialog was an offense to all that is good and decent, the plot was paper thin, the political maneuvering juvenile, and the special effects so crappy (except for the space battle at the start of Ep3). To my eye, if you compare Star Wars EPS 1-3's special effects against Firefly's or Battlestar Galactica's side by side there's absolutely no contest. The tv shows blow Star Wars away because they are forced to use special effects when necessary (or just *really* cool), not for every scene.
Your sig is a funny counterpoint to your comment. :-)
Without serious industry support, action, and promotion HD-DVD and Blu-ray will be to DVD as Laserdisc was to VHS. Technically superior, but too expensive and introduced to soon for most people to care.
Remember that DVDs replaced VHS after the VHS format had been around for over twenty years. That's enough time for a new generation of movie collectors to come along.
[All information here shared by my wife with her English masters degree. Any and all misinformation introduced by my transcription of her description of the theory.]
Actually Lara Croft doesn't really fit with the final girl theory. In Carol's definition you can't start with the *final* girl. She goes through a metamorphosis and becomes more masculine as she survives more of the horror.
Interesting points about the final girl theory:
The theory is flawed (all failings acknowledged by Carol Clover, she doesn't assert that this theory is anything grand or definite) in that it assumes that only adolescent males enjoy horror movies. The theory is completely broken if you agree that any women enjoy horror movies.
The theory itself says that the adolescent boys can identify with the final girl without themselves feeling threatened by the killer (who is hunting women), but who demonstrates the traits of a stereotypical adolescent male masculine fantasy (surviving against all odds, strong, capable, etc.). The theory is that this is a way for young men to indirectly experience homo-erotic fantasies. The women are characteristically running from phallic, penetrating objects such as knives and other stabbing weapons. Yet the final girl is also an erotic object herself. She usually has an asexual name (like Sam) and carries a phallic object like a torch, stick, etc.
Yes, the world of literary theory is stranger than you know. o_O
Game movies can suck for the same reasons that any other movie can suck: it's a bad movie! Bad acting, bad script, bad direction, etc.
Just because the inspiration for the movie was a videogame instead of a book, doesn't mean that these movies have to be treated with special care.
Just the Adam Cadre stuff, he's brilliant. I'll check out the others though, thanks for the tip.
Spider and Web absolutely rules for the utterly awesome solution to escape from the interrogation room. Brilliant. I would repeat it here but it's just so deliciously good that I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone.
Corporate (and large University) accounts license the OS for ghost imaging. They don't rely on OEM discs from the distributer. In fact, in many cases the computers are bought sans OS so the money isn't spent twice.
Grim Fandango is most definitely art. It is at once voice acting art, visual art, movie art, noir art, Aztec-influenced art, and cartoon art.
Art does not need to express an idea. Art is what we see as art. Your definition is pretentious (albeit seemingly good intentioned) nonesense because you imply that being an "artist" is not something that anyone can achieve.
I think you don't realize that creating something *is* expressing an idea. Someone had an idea for a bolt, and they made it. Just because it's practical and useful and there are billions of them doesn't mean that it isn't an idea that has been made manifest. Art may be beautiful, but it doesn't have to be. Art may be functionless, but it doesn't have to be. Art may be a unique piece, but it doesn't have to be.
If I hold a bolt, is it art? If I photograph it, is it art? If I paint it, is it art? At what medium do you agree that the bolt will be art? Any at all?
Another idea that you are forgetting is the Intentional Fallacy which says that the author of a work is not the sole voice on how to interpret that work. If you paint a picture that you say expresses joy and rapture, you cannot say that I am wrong if I come along and say that it actually expresses repressed anger. Moby Dick really can just be a book about a guy huntin' a whale, that is a valid interpretation and it doesn't mean that Moby Dick isn't art.
...I'd like to point out that atheism may be the state policy but not the beliefs of the people. China is not quite as easy to classify as you claim.
It means you can't link to or advocate ad blocking software from your blog.
Heck, just imagine using it like a cricket bat to whap the katamari ball o' stuff around. Or maybe a golf club. Or a pool cue. Whatever! Neat!
I wasn't excited about the Revolution...until I actually played with a DS and saw how a new control scheme can really spark developers' imaginations.